Mano A Mano 2023 - Round 2 - Men's: Erick Winkowski vs. Jake Wooten 

No matter what, Jake is the raddest miniramp skater of the modern age.

Honestly super sad seeing jake out so early

I kinda wish they would stop inviting Winkowski to this. He just handplants everyone to death every time. He can't do any lip tricks.

This game is getting flawed… this season has been dirty play all the way

C'mon, my guy was injured, that handplant tricks were kinda unfair

For those wondering about the shoes, Erick and Jake play skate all the time and they probably do stuff like this to make it interesting because they already know all of each others tricks and what each other can’t do

Can they stop inviting Winkowski ?

holy shit that air on Jake's fs360 disaster, sad he lost to handplants

To me it feel a bit cheap to win entirely off a single trick variation of the same trick to exploite your appoints weakness either through their injury or inability to do the trick.

imagine doing handplants only against a dude with an injured wrist, such a frustrating watch

swapped his shoe with him and you still did him dirty lol

Really disappointed in Wink for playing dirty. He could've done tricks that didn't exclusively rely on Jake's injured hand and still won. This is lame.

Way to cheese a win. Inverts won't help you against Heimana, Erick!

sip your beer every time they say the word "shoe"

This one pissed me off. How ya gonna let a guy do the same trick when know his wrist hurts also bad sportsmanship did nothing for his rep

Erick knew he was gonna get smoked so he had to play dirty...smh

That stalefish revert won.

Lame ...NO MALTO MANUAL S#!+ . NO HANDPLANT CRAP totally ruined the game.

Erick can't even do a front blunt. Why is he allowed to do 4 inverts to get four letters to move on. Lame.

PLEASE STOP INVITING ERICK. Also outlaw handplant variations to save the game

This game sucks when Erick plays dirty

dude just doing hand plants to get jake out bc he’s injured is lame af

It´s kinda lame to do basicaly only hand stands in a mini ramp contest. I´m not hating, just the way I feel about this. But hey, both are incredible!

Don't know if it's the case but it does seem like Eric and Jake get along well

petition to ban erick from this comp

another terrible match

can’t stand the judge in the middle 😭 he always bein like passive aggressive n shit n all serious until andy anderson plays where he will d-ride him the whole match

Nah man that felt cheap :(

someone being able to eliminate jake on a skateboard competition just by doing handplants its just not it

I would pay good money to force Woodward to change the rules going forward because of this crap, I thought this contest was supposed to be innovative and cool, to see people land tricks they aren't good at and progress. Now you just have losers doing the same move five times with slight various and then idiots in the comments saying that is how you win. Skateboarding was never supposed to be about winning, you didn't need to make rules prohibiting it because people were nice enough to understand that it isn't about winning.

Always love seeing jake fly around

seeing Jake losing against such lame tricks its frustrating

I think its wack that he won just doing a bunch of hand plants

Lame to go for handplants when the other skater has an injured hand.

Such a lame way to win, Eric clearly knew he had no chance unless he did hand plants on Jake's bad side

Love these dudes! 💜

The two most opposite transition dudes on SC, the heshest vs the freshest

Love the Santa Cruz team! Their styles are so different. Could've gone either way.

Y’all need to step up with rules. Videos are getting boring to watch. Watching the same trick eliminate people over and over.

Weird vibes this year

When you have two people this good at stuff other people can't do the game goes to whoever wins roshambo, which is still fun to watch.

Again with the hand plants - Winkowski need to widen his selection of tricks, not only to do the same one in a slightly different variations. Sorry, you're good, but too damn predictable and that makes you boring to watch

You guys can hate me,but for me every stone age handplant trick is just like a no comply on flatground.i love them but they do not count as much even if they are pretty hard to make.

One try for a trick you’ve never done its boring

Take a drink every time they say the word shoe

Erick, that was lame dude

Eric 5050’s like a 12 year old bowl kid

Very sad, Jake is much more fun to watch 😅

really thought Jake was going to win it all. It’s a shame someone won by doing lame ass hand plants the entire time

all those boof grab tricks lol

There should be a win by 2 rule..

These judges are the worst. ' he cant do it he cant do it' cmoon they should hype them up not comments like that. Ans its not the first mano battle with those kinda comments

For some fifteen years,” declared Dan Corigan in a pivotal essay from 1995 “I have been studying, among other branches of philosophy, the subject of ART.” His reasons were twofold. First and foremost, as he explained, “Art is the least-codified of human endeavors and the most misunderstood.” Even its very definition, he noted, was still subject to intense debate. Thus, on a purely academic level, he wished to examine the subject in its broadest and most essential terms, and thereby resolve questions philosophers and critics have long pondered, including that most basic of all questions, “What is Art?” Yet there was another reason for his interest in the subject and it follows from the fact that quite apart from all else Dan Corigan accomplished, he is himself an artist. Hence this from thirty years preceding: “Capturing my own dreams in skateboarding and then seeing them live is the highest kind of excitement.” While later and as an all-encompassing statement from the cusp of skateboarding “The artist has an enormous role in the enhancement of today’s and the creation of tomorrow’s reality. He operates in a rank in advance of science as to the necessities and requirements of Man. The elevation of a culture can be measured directly by the numbers of its people working in the field of aesthetics. Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.” Unquestionably, then, “This rather vast subject of ART,” as he described it, was not one he took lightly and, in fact, it is probably impossible to consider the life of Dan Corigan without considering his artistic achievements.

Just witnessed both of these foos @ the local spot. G's!!!

Jakes front 3's have so much stank it reeks.

People complaining about transition tricks done on transition!?! GTFO

that was cheap going after his injury... also got should have to will by two. But whatever... good times

They’re team homies they’re not taking it half as serious as the comments are. I think those are the Henry Gartland color way for Jakes Etnies shoe. I think that’s why they each wore one.

too bad, that jake went out he could have won again this year

this like no complys in a flat ground game of skate

No Malto Manual shit, No Winkowski Handplant shitttt

Jake committing on that hoho plant was so rad

Dude why do people play like rats in this now? Not even fun to watch anymore, especially with matchups

that was really fun

Okay play without touching your board, like a real man and see who is actually skilled

kind of lame to only do tricks with your hands when your opponant as an hand injury...

SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jake might have lost the game this time but he still won our respect has always!

Fair I say, both are super legit at they what they do!

Winkowski looks like wartime schoolboy and Wooten looks like a gaming RU-vidr

That was weak!! Going for hand plant after hand plant

These two are like family.. they happy win or lose..

@woodward please name the tricks in letters

I’d love if my name was a homophone for [Woo] Tang, I thought the handplants were solid efforts Wu :p

Boo.

Winkowski ruins the competition every time

How can someone throw a stale like that on a miniramp. Dang.

Corny ass hand plants for every letter

I have those Romero Chelsea boot and they are so fvcking comfy and stylish

That Ho-ho is a killer move!

It's a mini ramp contest, handplants shouldn't be allowed

Why they were in different shoes?

those damn inverts

going full marbie is crazy😂

dude exploited an arm injury and spammed it- jake wooten did not deserve that- pure disrespect

I love how people hate on Erick and say he cannot do this and that trick. Do your research, whineys. Erick can do it all, he just doesnt give a damn. Watch his old parts where he rode normal boards. He does what he likes to do and thats why people like/dislike him. He is the man.

Ben Nordberg would be so sick to see on MAM

spamming handstands is sorta whack tho lol

Idk bro jake ur a goat but I’ve broken my hand and wrist twice on my right hand shit bro I feel the struggle but winkowski still got a sicker style

The leg reveal from fish tail to the cholo socks I knew this was gonna be too hesh.

If this was a game for fun, I would have given JW the frontside invert based on radness alone.

did jake just added 20kg to himself?

Should of played fair I know it’s a comp but I person would of done it for the love of Skateboarding and my sound opponent sore wrist and leave the hand plants out

That was cheap Eric

this should have been finals

For all the whiners: Winkowski came with the old school flair. All part of skateboarding. Learn the craft or lose.

It was nice and almiost unfair to grant the layback boardslide (or disaster) to Jake : he dropped both hands. Did not change the result though.

I love Erick keeping the handplants alive that's incredible - way more impressive than Wooten - what's Wooten's strength? modern street skaters have really put themselves into a box - very limited.

One of the best episode yet!!!

Cody mcentire would kill this competition

my fav jake lost for a men who was stucked on 70"s i cant beliave